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Iran–Iraq War Shows How External Threats Can Unite a Divided Nation
The 1980–88 war forged national unity in Iran despite internal fractures, offering a lesson for how external conflicts…
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James Dyson: A Career Retrospective
Dyson now sells in 84 markets and has its headquarters in Singapore, with a significant footprint in the…
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Falklands War of 1982: Key Dates, Casualties, and Military Outcome
BUENOS AIRES, July 16 — Against this backdrop of shifting global alliances and unresolved territorial disputes, the Falklands…
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Robert Maxwell: The Media Baron Whose Empire Drowned With Him
At 4.45am on 5 November 1991, Robert Maxwell called the bridge of his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to…
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Volodymyr Zelensky: From Comedian to Wartime President of Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky had no political experience when he announced he would run in Ukraine’s 2019 presidential election. He…
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Angela Merkel: From East German Scientist to Sixteen-Year Chancellor
At nine years old, Angela Kasner stood on the edge of a 3-metre diving board and stared at…
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Robert Mugabe: The Liberation Hero Who Ruined Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe once joked that he would govern Zimbabwe until he reached 100. By mid-November 2017 he was…
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Erdogan: From a Prison Cell to Turkey’s Presidency
Before he ran Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan sold simit from a red three-wheel cart in Istanbul. He wore…
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Nelson Mandela: From Prison Cell to President
Twenty-seven years. That is how long Nelson Mandela spent in prison, and the man who walked out in…
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The 1980s Tanker War in the Gulf and Its Lessons for US Navy Escorts Today
DUBAI, July 31 — The Iran-Iraq War, a protracted and devastating conflict spanning much of the 1980s, left…
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US-Iran Conflict Explained: From the 1953 Coup to 2026 Tensions
TEHRAN, July 19 — The year 2026 has brought a direct military confrontation between Iran and the United…
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How the Moscow Kremlin grew from a wooden stockade into a brick fortress
MOSCOW, July 11 — Against this backdrop of a grinding war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has once again…
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John Maynard Keynes Proposed the Bancor at Bretton Woods, but the Dollar System Won
LONDON, July 10 — The shift is subtle but seismic. Eighty years after John Maynard Keynes helped design…
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Prince Henry the Navigator’s Captains Reached Madeira in 1418, Opening Portugal’s Atlantic Push
LISBON, July 8 — The shift is subtle but unmistakable. Six centuries after a Portuguese prince launched the…
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How Iran Buries a Supreme Leader: The 1989 Khomeini Funeral
Eight people were crushed to death on 5 June 1989 in Tehran, and the funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah…
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Norway voted 368,208 to 184 to leave its union with Sweden in 1905
OSLO, July 3 — The numbers are almost too clean to believe. In the autumn of 1905, after…
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Mandela’s birthplace sites shape tourism and memory in modern South Africa
One hundred years after his birth, Nelson Mandela’s presence is still felt in the geography of South Africa.…
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How Old Is Ukraine? Three Honest Answers From 882 to 1991
KYIV, July 1 — The shift is unmistakable. Ukraine is no longer fighting a defensive war confined to…
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The Fleet That Was Split: Ukraine’s Navy from Soviet Inheritance to Drone War
KYIV, July 9 — The Ukrainian Navy, as a conventional blue-water force, effectively ceased to exist in 2014.…
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Fire Wrecks Chapel Roof at Córdoba Mosque-Cathedral, Which Reopens Next Day
Fire broke out at Córdoba’s treasured Mosque–Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption,…
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Peru Reopens Ledger on Fujimori’s Legacy After Prison Release
The departure of Alberto Fujimori from prison this week does not erase the record of his decade in…
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